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Mar 07, 2012 News
Bandits shot a 16-year-old schoolgirl and made off with her Blackberry cell phone at around 19:30 hrs yesterday.
Sasha Gilhuys, a student of St. Rose’s Secondary, was shot in the left shoulder in Thomas Street, Kitty, shortly after leaving a residence where she attends lessons. She was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation in a stable condition.
Up to press time, police were still scouring several neighbourhoods for the robbers.
According to reports, the teen, who resides in Roxanne Burnham Gardens, had just left a Spanish class and was accompanying a friend to a shop before heading home when two young men attacked them.
One of the men then shot Gilhuys in the shoulder and snatched her Blackberry mobile phone. The men reportedly fled the scene on bicycles.
The wounded girl was rushed to the GPHC by the husband of the teacher whose Spanish classes she attends. She was taken to the X-ray department before receiving further treatment at the Accident and Emergency Unit.
Her father, Lester Gilhuys, told Kaieteur News that he had told his daughter to take a taxi home, but learned that she had followed a friend to a shop.
The incident is eerily similar to the fate of bank employee Sheema Mangar, who was slain on September 11, 2010 for her cell phone.
The 21-year-old had just left work and was waiting for transportation on North Road, close to Church Street, when a thief snatched her BlackBerry cellular phone and entered a waiting car.
The occupants of the car then ran over Mangar, who had stood in front of the vehicle while demanding that the thief return her phone.
She died hours later at a city hospital. Her killers are still at large.
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